Quotes About Activism

Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom.

she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.

Most of the members of the Montgomery NAACP were black. White people had to have a lot of courage to join, because they would be ostracized by the white community. It was still very dangerous for anyone, black or white, to try to help black people. We got more help from northern whites.

As secretary of the NAACP, I recorded and sent membership payments to the national office, answered telephones, wrote letters, and sent out press releases to the newspapers. One of my main duties was to keep a record of cases of discrimination or unfair treatment or acts of violence against black people.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.

Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.

Boarding School Seasons, by Brenda J. Child They Called It Prairie Light, by K. Tsianina Lomawaima To Be a Water Protector, by Winona LaDuke

That it's possible to be against the circus, not because you're afraid to die there, but because it's wicked and wrong. ~Aurelia, 152

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

By any means necessary.

the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

You know I just dispatched copies to Aldous Huxley & Ezra Pound—finally heard from them. And to Blaise Cendrars.‡ Also wrote a good letter to Emma Goldman.

Treating feminism like it's a personal accessory that just isn't appropriate anymore obscures the places where feminism hasn't made strides for people who still need it.